West Allis NATIONALS Baseball

ROUND ROBIN PLAY

Thurs August 11

Kenosha at West Allis 7:30pm - Harvey Kuenn Field, West Allis

Friday August 12

Chicago at Kenosha 7:30pm - Simmons Field, Kenosha

Sheboygan at West Allis 7:30pm - Harvey Kuenn Field, West Allis

Saturday August 13 (all games in Sheboygan at Wildwood Park)

Chicago vs West Allis 4:00pm

Chicago vs Sheboygan 6:00pm

Kenosha vs Sheboygan 8:00pm

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Sunday August 14 (Sheboygan-Wildwood Park)

Top 2 teams based on win/loss record from round robin play- 6:00pm

Max Widmar continued his offensive tear on Wednesday night with 2 doubles, a homer, and 6 RBI as the West Allis Nationals downed the visiting Sheboygan A's 10-0 at Harvey Kuenn Field in West Allis.

Widmar's 2 run homer in the first inning gave the locals an early 3-0 lead and the team never looked back.   Aaron Goecks added a homer of his own in the third inning to push the lead to 8-0.

John Arnold started on the bump, going four innings while allowing 7 hits and 2 walks.   Jon Caban followed to close out the game.

This Saturday the Nationals host the 1st place Lombard Orioles at Henry Aaron Field in Milwaukee.   The two teams will play a DH starting at 3pm. 

The Nationals defeated Addison, IL 9-2, followed by a dramatic 7-6 victory over first place Lombard, IL to complete a successful weekend of games in Sheboygan.

Cody Griebling started and went the distance in game 1 vs Addison, striking out 12.  Kyle Kalkopf led the offense with 2 doubles and 5 RBI.

Game two was a back and forth affair.  Lombard jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first, but the Nationals responded with 4 runs of their own.   Lombard later tied the game at 4, but Max Widmar hit an opposite field homer in the fifth to give the Nats the lead.   Lombard responded with a 2 run homer in the sixth to take a 6-5 lead.   After a quiet sixth, the Nats rallied in the bottom of the 7th.  Ben Carpenter reached on an error to lead off and Jonah Meidl followed with a single.  With one out, Max Widmar singled to left, his fourth hit of the game, to tie the score at 6.   A Shey Smith flyout advanced runners to second and third with two outs bringing Aaron Goecks to the plate.   With two strikes, and after fighting off a few pitches, Goecks hit a squibber off the end of the bat to no man's land on the third base side of the hill, scoring Meidl with the winning run.   With the victory the Nats moved into 3rd place in the WSL.

Next up for the Nats are the second place Sheboygan A's on Wednesday night at Kuenn Field in West Allis. First pitch is set for 7:30pm. 

In a first time meeting between the expansion DePere Dodgers and Nationals, righthander John Keane threw seven shutout innings in a complete game 8-0 victory.   Keane allowed only three hits and struck out six on the day.

Kyle Kalkopf and Brian Huntzinger led the offense with two hits each.   Huntzinger, Ben Carpenter and Jonah Meidl scored each scored two runs.   Shey Smith and Kalkopf knocked in two.

Next up for the Nationals are the Addison, IL Braves at 1pm Sunday in Sheboygan.   That game will be followed by a match up with the first place Lombard, IL Orioles.   

The West Allis Nationals beat the rival Kenosha Kings on Thursday night at Simmons Field Kenosha 7-0 behind a solid outing from Jim Jungbauer.   Jungbauer allowed only 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 7 in the complete game shutout victory.    The win moves the Nats closer toward the upper tier of the Wisconsin State League.

The offense proved steady on Thursday, scoring at least one run in six of seven innings.  Matt Richer led the way with 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 steals and an RBI.   Kyle Kalkopf also had a big night with 3 hits and 2 RBI's.

The Nationals will spend this coming weekend in Sheboygan, playing neutral site games against the DePere Dodgers (Sat 10am), Addison, IL Braves (Sun 1pm) and Lombard, IL Orioles (Sun 3pm) before finally heading back home for a Wednesday July 13 clash against the Sheboygan A's.